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Emily's Diary

This extract is quoted in Sherrard's "Two Victorian Girls", p6. I have been unable to identify exactly where it came from in the diary. Emily evident did not find all of Miss Kemble's style to her liking!

"I am getting on with Miss Kemble's journal which I like uncommonly. Her descriptions are beautiful, but throughout there is a vulgarity amounting even to coarseness, that has the appearance to me of affection.  Speaking of the rapid way time moves along she says 'Go it, old fellow!"